County Commissioners · Meeting · Feb 2, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfjETIZ3oOg 2/2/2026 County Commission Audio - Hickman County, TN Feb 2, 2026 0:00 Hello. How are you? You doing all right? 0:13 I don't see how sir 0:27 the bottom part good. TW 0:33 and the office here a few days ago. I didn't get to work 0:39 out there. He said there's some trees in 0:45 back. I've come out of it 0:52 now. The snow all better off last week. 1:08 unfinished business. Thank you very much. 1:20 lay aggress. 1:47 Hey, you pick those up. 1:56 Couldn't even get out. Well, I said coming up when I left to 2:03 come here today. It's a little worse today at the back of just that truck. It 2:08 just tell the world. 2:13 I didn't get a pack of 2:45 Get all squared away now. 3:01 It'll be just 3:09 guest 3:17 that kind 3:25 All right. Call this uh the Hen County legislative body meeting uh to order 3:30 Monday uh well whatever February the 1st. This 3:35 is January the rescheduled January meeting. If we 3:40 could have a roll call. Ron Pucket 3:46 here. Ricky Murray here. Keith Nash, Devin Picker here, 3:51 Matthew Barnhill here, Paul Calott here, Lake Chester here, Danny Clark here, Todd Collins, Wayne Thomasson, 3:58 Steve Dinois here, Jim Herren here, Dusty Jordan here, Ron Mayberry here, 4:03 12 present, two absent, 12 present, two absent, 13 present, one absent. 4:15 Okay. Uh we're going to do our prayer and our pledge. U and I've asked 4:22 um Mr. Alama good uh to do our prayer and sheriff craft to do our pledge and u 4:29 and I'm sure that the full body and everybody here knows but really 4:35 appreciate the work that all the departments pivot over to the meeting yet but all the departments did 4:40 excellent job during the ice storm. Uh, everybody bragged on our county and everybody chipped in and they put in a 4:48 lot of long hours. Um, and I really appreciate y'all's work that you did 4:54 that you're doing. Um, and I'd like to give you a round of applause. 5:08 Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this day and for your many blessings that you pour upon us. Father, we uh ask 5:14 that you would be with us as the business is conducted tonight. And Father, we just ask that it would be 5:19 done to your honor and your glory. Father, we pray for those who are devastated by the the events of the past 5:26 week. Father, those that uh have lost loved ones, Father, those who have been 5:31 injured, Father, we we ask your blessings on them. Father, we thank you for all those who are coming from all 5:38 over the state to help us. And Father, we ask your protection on them. Father, we ask all these things in your 5:43 son's name and for his sake. Amen. Amen. 5:48 I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic 5:55 for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and 6:01 justice for all. 6:09 And and I really what I should have said was they're the fronts of their department, but all the ones that work 6:15 in that department that made it happen. They may not get named, but they've been and they've been all the directors have 6:22 been very quick to uh applaud the efforts of all the ones and so 6:27 appreciate that. U you have an agenda in front of you uh sent out with packet. 6:33 Any 6:38 discussion? All in favor say I. I. 6:44 Those opposed. Next is the public comment period. The 6:49 we have two names. Um uh and these uh comments have to be uh 6:56 towards things that are on the agenda. First one is Miss uh Captain Winners 7:02 Reen. 7:13 Hello, I'm Kathy Wyers Readen. At the end of the November commissioner's meeting, Steve Janakis had an open 7:20 motion with a second on the floor to make changes to the verdage of the growth plan document to delete the 5acre 7:28 rule wording. So, the current 1 acre will remain in force. The majority of 7:34 our citizens supports the 1acre rule. Why are these changes so important? 7:40 Because Tennessee law says once you approve the growth plan and its verbiage 7:45 therein, the rules cannot be changed even by resolution for three years and all 7:52 future zoning legislation must follow this growth plan. This document with the 7:58 5acre rule is not a betterment for the majority 8:03 of our current or future citizens. Why? Number one, affordability of purchasing 8:09 property to build on five acres instead of one. I just had 10 acres appraised last summer on Locust Creek Road in the 8:16 East End and it appro appraised for over $200,000. 8:21 Currently, one acre lot on the east end is averaging $30,000. 8:28 Number two, cost to upkeep five acres. Not everyone wants more than one acre to 8:33 upkeep. Number three, parents having to give five acres to their children off of 8:39 their farms instead of one. And the fourth big one, loss of property 8:45 tax revenue. Do you remember Delta Mayberry last summer speaking to you about the property tax revenue loss? 8:54 And it would be approximately 40% with the 5 acre rule in force. 9:00 Property tax is the majority of our county budget revenue being over 10 and 9:06 a half million for the 2425 fiscal year. Has anyone come up with a plan of how to 9:13 recoup this loss of revenue without just increasing the current property tax%. 9:21 Maybe we need a means and way committee to address all funding issues dealing with proposed new legislation. 9:28 Our residents are currently struggling financially and this five acre ru rule will set those who are renting or our 9:36 homegrown teenagers further behind with their hopes and dreams of someday being able to build a 9:42 home. Our zoning has already put an end to affordable housing by banning single 9:48 wides and now we have people living in small camping trailers, backyard sheds 9:53 turned into tiny houses and some having to rent non-maintained 9:59 trailers and houses. Last thing I want to say is state law says zoning 10:05 regulation must be to quote promote the health, safety, morals, convenience, 10:12 order, prosperity, and welfare of the present and future inhabitants." 10:19 For the life of me, I'm still trying to figure out what category this 5 acre 10:24 rule fits into. Maybe someone who came up with the idea or that is promoting it 10:31 can explain it to me. Lastly, I'm giving you a handout with the laws I have 10:37 stated so you know everything I have said is true and I humbfully ask you to 10:44 vote to remove the 5acre verbiage from the growth plan document which are the 10:49 changes Steve Geianis is making in his open motion tonight. The 5acre rule is 10:55 not what this county needs since our entire zoning is agricultural based and 11:01 it applies to all property owners financially. 11:09 Thank you. Uh next is Mark Walls. 11:20 Thank you commissioner for allowing us to speak today. 11:25 There's a little bit of clarity u that I need to speak of. So I think right now 11:31 instead of 5 acres I believe it's 3 to 15 um which is last proposal which we 11:37 know that most citizens are against. We we know that um 11:44 and I know some of you guys have good intentions uh and I trust some of you and I trust Steve. 11:51 One of the proposals that I'm not sure about is I don't think it's staying one acre in this proposal. It may be uh 11:57 taking the numbers out alto together. Well, if we take out all the numbers all 12:03 together, then we know that the land use plan has to align with any future zone 12:09 changes like we know that. So if there's no numbers then planning and zoning and 12:16 they're meeting that's not on camera mic or anything else can um try to make 12:21 their upgrades and their zoning and as long as it aligns with the land use plan. Well if the land use plan has no 12:29 numbers in it then they can make them whatever they want. 15 is not even an ex like they could do 20 20 acres. Um, and 12:36 so whenever we have an issue, at least in in my world, you know, we need to come 12:42 up with a solution. You know, anything above 3 acres is not a 12:47 solution. Not for our county. Williamson County, yes. I mean, when you you've got 12:52 dramatic growth and you got to slow it down, fine. About 05 acres out there. 12:57 But that's not us. We're begging. We're begging for business. So at the most I believe it should be 13:04 three acres. You know if it's one to three if you want to do A1, A2, A3, but 13:09 anything beyond that is detrimental to the land owner and it's also detrimental 13:16 like she said with the tax base and what Del Mayberry told us. That's all I got. 13:21 Thank you. 13:26 Next on the agenda is the adoption of the minutes from the Monday November meeting. Those are sent out with the 13:33 packet. Got a motion and a second. Any 13:39 discussion on the minutes? All in favor say I. I. 13:45 Those opposed. Uh special recognitions, memorials, commendations. You have any sir? Okay. 13:54 Uh, elections and appointments, confirmations. 13:59 Uh, appreciate you. 14:16 What's that? All right. The clerk's going to read the 14:21 uh the notaries that are up for approval. Candace Anderson, Cindy Bailey, Amanda 14:27 Bowman, Melissa Deal, Chance Deal, Allison Datte, Sher Dunn, Pamela Essie, 14:34 Rachel Jones, Darla Mlanahan, Courtney Scott, Karen Tidwell, Rebecca Truman, 14:40 Flynn Warden, Lanne Webb, and Nicole Wright. 14:50 You want to make a motion to approve all? Yes. 15:02 Second. Have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. 15:09 Those opposed. Okay. Uh are there any other appointments? 15:25 They were in the packet. All right. In the packet was our um was 15:30 the the quarterly reports. We'll need a motion to approve those. 15:39 Dusty, we got a motion and a second 15:46 and any discussion. All right, we'll need a roll call vote. 15:51 Ron Pucket, yes. Ricky Murray, yes. Devin Pickard, yes. Matthew Barnhill, yes. 15:56 Paul Calott, yes. Clay Chester, yes. Danny Clark, yes. Todd Collins, yes. Wayne Thompson, 16:02 yes. Steve Joanis, yes. Jim Herren, yes. Dustin Jordan, yes. Ron Mayberry, yes. 16:08 13, yes, one absent. 13 yes, one absent. Uh, does anyone wish 16:14 to change their vote? Uh, uh, next is communication from the 16:20 county mayor. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First, I'd like to say that my notes 16:26 were in your package. Um, I was going to give you an updates on on the new EMS station in Pinewood. I listed everything 16:34 in your packet. If you have any questions, I'll be glad to answer them. Um, I do kind of want to piggyback off 16:40 of Commissioner Calakott. I want I want EMA, the Sheriff's 16:46 Department, and everybody that has been involved in this disaster a pat on the back. Thank you. I know you've worked 16:54 hard. I've been in many, many updated meetings 16:59 uh with Teima, FEMA, and I can't tell you when I looked up one day and saw the 17:05 majority of this body there. 17:10 If that doesn't tell people that you're standing together, nothing else will. 17:16 I just appreciate that from the county commission and I just want you to know that. So, I'm going to be short and 17:21 brief. I know we got a lot to do tonight. So, if you have any questions, I'll entertain them. Now, 17:27 any questions for the county mayor? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 17:34 Uh, next is the monthly committee reports. First is the planning commission. Uh, I'm the chair of that, 17:41 but since I'm sitting in this chair, if you've got questions on the minutes or in the packet, 17:47 I've got other members that are here. You got any questions for the planning commission? 17:55 Okay, solid waste. We did have a meeting and the minutes 18:01 are in the packet. Uh be happy to entertain any questions and 18:06 George here as well. 18:16 Okay. um health, safety, and properties committee. 18:23 As as we all know, I'm the chairman, but uh at the last public safety meeting, I 18:29 believe you chaired that, Mr. Calakut. I was not there. And and I'll let you uh 18:35 field any questions or make any comments you want to, but all I want to say is public safety for the month of February 18:42 starts at six o'clock after this meeting. And if you've seen the agenda or not, I'm not sure. The uh there's not 18:51 going to be a whole lot of business. Uh it's going to be an opportunity for the sheriff, the major players in this to 18:57 recognize their people and tell us what they did. And that's going to be the gist. So, if there's any public that 19:03 wants to stay and and witness that, I would ask them to please do it because it's a story to tell. I can tell you 19:09 that much. And as far as any questions, I'll answer 19:14 if I can. Mr. Calut, you chair that meeting. 19:20 Any questions for the property and safety 19:26 finance? We did have a meeting. The minutes are in your packet. 19:31 Answer any questions on that. I would like to get approval for the uh summary 19:37 of the summary of financial for the month of November. 19:43 Okay. Motion approve 19:49 second. 19:56 Any discussion? Roll call vote. Ron Pucket. This is Ricky Murray. 20:02 Yes. Picker. Yes. Matthew Barnhill. Yes. Paul Calakott. Yes. Clay Chester. Yes. 20:07 Danny Clark. Todd Collins. Yes. Wayne Thomas. Yes. Steve Janaka. Yes. Jim Herren. 20:12 Yes. Dustin Jordan? Yes. Ron Mayberry? Yes. 13? Yes. One absent. 20:18 Uh, does anyone wish to change their vote? 20:26 Mr. Does that have anything else to add? 20:32 All right. Uh, budget committee. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We met the 20:37 minutes from the meeting are in the packet. Uh, tonight we have six budget amendments to review. Um, and then we'll 20:45 have some additional discussion and I'll get right into the budget amendments. I will go ahead and group um several 20:53 together. There's five of them I'll group together. uh budget amendment 2640 in the amount 21:00 of $17,636.84. This is for um account 101. This is 21:07 clean up of accounts and some insurance recovery. Budget amendment 2641 in the amount of 21:14 60,000. Uh this is a sheriff budgeting for sale of smokeless tobacco. 21:20 Budget amendment 2642 in the amount of 3,000. This is to install two uh TVs 21:27 here in the courtroom. Uh with the new software we're getting, this will allow the public that are here to be able to 21:33 review um some of the voting and things of that nature that are presented. Budget amendment 2643 in the amount of 21:40 37,900. This is some additional uh money that's needed for the primary that we'll be uh 21:46 having here in the county in May. Budget amendment 2644 in the amount of $1,500. 21:53 U this is additional money needed for some vet costs for the sheriff's department. I'll make a motion to 21:59 approve all these budget. Okay. Second. 22:06 All right. There motion and second for 26, excuse me, 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44 for 22:15 approval. Any discussion? 22:22 Roll call vote. Ron Pucket, yes. Ricky Murray, yes. Devin Picker, yes. Matthew Barnhill, yes. 22:27 Paul Calak, yes. Clay Chester, yes. Danny Clark, yes. Todd Collins, yes. Wayne Thompson, yes. 22:33 Steve, yes. Jim Herren, yes. Dusty Jordan, yes. Ron Mayberry, yes. 22:38 13 yes, one absent. 13 yes, one absent. Does anyone wish to change their vote? 22:45 13 yes, one. Next is budget amendment 2645 in the 22:52 amount of $40,900. This is for the highway department. This is to reclass some funds as recommended 22:58 by the commissioners of the highway department. I make a motion to approve this budget. 23:05 Second discussion. 23:13 Roll call vote. Ron Pucket. Yes. Ricky Murray. Yes. Deon Picker. Yes. Matthew Barnhill. 23:18 Yes. Paul Calakott. Yes. Clay Chester. Yes. Danny Clark. Yes. Todd Collins. Yes. Wayne Thomasson. Yes. 23:24 Steve Janaka. Yes. Jim Harren. Yes. Dusty Jordan. Yes. Ron Mayberry. Yes. 13. Yes. One absent. 23:32 Does anyone wish to change their vote? 13. Yes. One absent. 23:39 Uh the next thing is I would like to make a motion to set aside the rules so we can review the two budget amendments 23:45 that were handed out. should be in front of you all. Uh, one is in regards to the 23:51 uh some some final cost for the beard case and the other one is in regards to the emergency that we had this past 23:58 week. So, uh, with the weather motion set the rules are second by 24:04 Commissioner Clark. The uh, this motion 24:09 uh, is is asked because these budget minutes did not come into the committee first. Uh, we'll be voting on the motion 24:17 to set aside the rules first. So, we have a roll call vote. Ron Pucket, 24:23 yes. Ricky Murray, yes. Devin Picker, yes. Matthew Barnhill, yes. Paul Calott, yes. 24:28 Clay Chester, yes. Danny Clark, yes. Todd Collins, yes. Wayne Thompson, yes. Steve Janaka, 24:33 yes. Jim Herren, yes. Justin Jordan, yes. Ron Mayberry, yes. 13, yes. One. 24:40 So, budget amendment 2646. We'll talk about this one. This is some additional 24:46 um cause of some delayed billing that we we received for the beard case and Crystal needs to uh get a check out for 24:53 this. So, I'll make a motion to approve this budget amendment. 25:09 Steve, do you have copies of those? I do. I need All 25:20 right. Any discussion on budget 2646? 25:30 Okay. Roll call vote. Ron Pucket, yes. Ricky Murray, yes. Deon Ficker, yes. Matthew Barnhill, 25:36 yes. Paul Calakott, yes. Clay Chester, yes. Danny Clark, yes. Todd Collins, yes. Yes. Wayne Thompson. 25:42 Yes. Steve Janaka. Yes. Jim Harren, yes. Dusty Jordan, yes. Ron Mayberry, yes. 25:48 13. Yes. One. Does anyone wish to change their vote? 13. Yes. One. Okay. Next budget 25:55 amendment we'll discuss is 2647. This is in the amount of $640,000. 26:01 This is taking um some money from the fund balance and then also for disaster 26:07 relief. Um Crystal can excuse Crystal can maybe talk a little bit more to 26:13 this, but basically um the way we understand is some of this grant is going to be like a 25 75% grant. Um so 26:21 we'll be putting the bill for 25% but obviously this is for some of the expenses that we've had this week in 26:28 regards to the cleanup of the county uh and a lot of additional resources that have come into the county. So I don't 26:33 know Crystal if you want to add anything else. Um this budget amendment will allow us to get started with the cleanup. Um, we 26:40 met with FEMA this morning and the grant is a 7525 split. So, under budget 26:46 amendment, it shows 75% coming back from FEMA. Um, we're not sure exactly where 26:52 we're at right now. Uh, but I I put some I made sure that there was money for 26:57 overtime, which is what we're running into now, equipment rental, uh, and contracted services to get our roads and 27:03 things back open. Um, and there's also some money in for highway construction 27:08 just because as things fall, we're going to run into that issue as well. So, this 27:13 will get us started for now. Any questions? Uh, I'll make a motion 27:21 for to approve this. Second discussion. 27:27 U 27:33 is this enough? Uh no, no, we're we're also looking at which I think Mr. Joffus is going to 27:40 address in a little bit. Uh we're looking at maybe a capital outlet loan for cash flow. 27:46 The conversations I've been privy to are a little more than the number that's on the Yes. We're just trying to get things 27:52 moving until we can get other things in. Crystal likes to make sure her money is in the right places before it goes out. 27:59 So that's this is some of that to kind of make sure that that is set up. Um but 28:04 yes, I will be also discussing here shortly a little bit more. So 28:11 other discussion roll call vote. Ron Py, 28:16 yes. Ricky Murray, yes. Devin Picker, yes. Matthew Barnhill, yes. Paul Calott, yes. 28:22 Clay Chester, yes. And Clark, yes. Todd Collins, yes. Wayne Thompson, yes. 28:27 Steve Janaka, yes. Jim Herren, yes. Dusty Jordan, yes. Ron Mayberry, yes. 28:32 13, yes, one. And does anyone wish to change their vote? 28:38 13 yes, one. 28:46 Okay. So to continue on this um path, 28:52 obviously we we do have some expenses and this is to get us started. Um but we 28:57 uh you know wi with our situation and and and not knowing what lies ahead, 29:04 what we would like to do is make a motion to give Crystal and the mayor permission to go ahead and pursue a 29:09 capital outlay um loan in the amount of $1.5 million to be able to cover some of 29:16 these expenses. Now, it's my my understanding that is that, you know, sometimes we're going to get some money 29:22 quickly and sometimes it may take a little while before we get that money reimbursement back from from the federal 29:28 government. Uh, but this will help to ensure that it's accounted for correctly and put in together in one place. And uh 29:36 I Crystal, if you wanted to add anything else to that. No. Um, we're asking for permission to 29:42 do a draw loan. So, we're hoping that we won't need that whole 1.5 29:48 million. So, we won't draw any more than what we need. And this will have to come back before 29:56 this body. Yes. Yes. There'll be a resolution. This is just for us to reach out to make sure that we have permission from the state. 30:02 We're just giving we're giving you and the mayor permission to pursue the loan, start that process, and then they'll 30:07 come back to us and then we would have to actually approve the terms and things of that nature. Okay? So, we're not voting on the loan, 30:13 right? We're just vote. We're just saying go check on it. 30:19 Mr. Picker, how do you come up with 1.5? I'm just curious. Is it just a What do you want? I got a motion. I want 30:25 somebody. I thought I had Okay. Okay. Okay. 30:31 Um Crystal put some numbers together. Uh and the conservative amount was 1.2. I 30:37 said, "Let's ask for 1.5 because this is a draw anyhow. We're not going to it's not like they're going to write a check 30:42 for us on 1.5. We're just going to pull out what we need to fill the needs um with this particular situation. And um 30:49 and of course we also, you know, got some things going on with the heart monitor. So there are some additional 30:55 things that if if we needed to add it in there, we could we could we could add on to that. But she's been in meetings most 31:00 of the morning calculating. So um and I know Krista is very conservative and 31:06 1.2. So I said, "Well, let's go up to 1.5 just to make sure." this the right way. We're not having to turn around do 31:11 this whole thing. Other discussion, 31:17 these numbers were based off of list team of supply, equipment cost, manh 31:23 hours kind of what the department chair had already or department had already 31:28 looked at and kind of got it didn't it wasn't pulled out of there. So there was real numbers put to this. 31:37 Mr. Clark, I just I I think everybody's in okay with this in favor of it, but I 31:45 would tell you the last vote that the county commission that was going out in 2010 made was to borrow $4 million to 31:53 recoup from the flood. This this is nothing new. This is this is the way we have to do business. Uh it was the same 32:01 way so we could immediately get started repairing the bridges and and get us 32:07 back. This is nothing new to for these emergencies. Some of this I'm assuming 32:13 Crystal, some of this Pete, some of this is going to be reimbursed. 32:18 I would not ask anybody to put a number on how much is going to be reimbursed because we're dealing with federal 32:24 government. Uh, and by the time the money starts to flow back, we'll have a different president. There may be a 32:29 different attitude. So, I would encourage you to vote for it 32:35 because it's It's just the way we have to do on these disasters. 32:41 And I I'll go ahead and add a little bit more to that. When when we have volunteer people working over in excess 32:48 of a 100 hours this week, that's a volunteer. You can imagine with 32:54 these these folks that have been are on our payroll what they've worked and and 33:00 this will definitely um you know help with that situation. 33:06 Any other discussion? Roll call. 33:11 Ron Pucket, yes. Ricky Murray, yes. Devin Picker, yes. Matthew Barnhill, 33:17 yes. Claude Calakott, yes. Clay Chester, yes. Danny Clark, yes. Todd Collin, 33:22 yes. Wayne Thomasson, yes. Steve Janak, yes. Jim Herren, yes. Dusty Jordan, 33:27 yes. Ron Mayberry, yes. 13. Yes. One absent. 33:33 Does anyone wish to change their vote? 13. Yes. One. 33:40 One last thing in the budget and uh human resources meeting we had. We did approve some adjustments to the 33:46 personnel practices. So, I'd like to make a motion the uh to approve uh these 33:51 adjustments. They were in your packet and of course the budget uh committee did approve those as well. 34:00 Any discussion? 34:06 Roll call vote. Ron Pucket, yes. Ricky Mur, yes. Deon Picker, yes. Matthew Barnhill, yes. 34:12 Paul Calott, yes. Clay Chester, yes. Danny Clark, yes. Todd Collins, yes. Wayne, 34:17 yes. Steve, yes. Jim Herren, yes. Dusty Jordan, yes. Ron Mayberry, yes. 34:23 13, yes. Anyone wish to change their vote? 13 yes, one absent. 34:31 I am through Mr. Chairman. Okay, Mr. Jordan, I've got two things. I forgot a couple 34:37 of reports that are in this packet would typically be in February. The solid waste committee for January is also in 34:44 the packet. And if you have any questions on that, here to answer. 34:52 None. The second part is our finance committee meeting for this month is in 34:57 the packet and I'd like to make a motion to approve the summary for 35:02 January December in second. 35:12 Roll call. Ron Pucket. Yes. Ricky Murray. Yes. Deon Picker. Yes. Anthony Bar. 35:18 Paul Calott. Yes. Chester. Yes. Danny Clark. Yes. Collins. Yes. Wayne Thompson. 35:23 Yes. Steve Janak. Yes. Jim Harren. Yes. Jordan. Yes. Yes. 35:28 13. Yes. One. Does anyone wish to change their vote? 35:33 13. Yes. One. All right. Foundation. 35:48 I'm already We didn't meet this month, correct? Because 35:54 I don't think the extension committee met either. The public records uh economic and 36:02 community development Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good evening, commissioners. Quick update. 36:08 First grant, the partner group that's responsible for the $100,000 36:14 broadband um for free Wi-Fi and on the square and the act pavilion. We're going 36:21 to be meeting this month. We're still working on the dates, but of course, we'll have to talk about um the 36:26 timelines given the impacts the storm has had on Fair Weather Lewis's response to CO activities. 36:34 $50,000 threear grant. Well, we were rejected in October for that continued 36:39 land use plan to support and offset the cost. Uh however, called Nashville and 36:45 we applied reapplied this December. We'll know in a We're going to get that 50,000 to help again offset the cost for 36:52 the extended land use plan activities. We also applied for $10,000 36:58 in December three star grant to hit one of our three star goals and we requested 37:03 to begin early phase planning for our for a new east farmers market. Uh the 37:10 state suggested that we use some of the funds to hire a community planning contractor and they have some 37:15 recommendations. So, that's one of our three star goals we're going to try to hit this year. Industry news, Coalition 37:22 Foods, you all know the protein bar company that's across from McDonald's, next door to Trimhe Healthy Cafe. Well, 37:29 they just went through a merger and acquisition. They have a client that has received an order so large that they 37:36 bought Coalition Foods. That company is called Toai. It's a firm out of 37:41 California and they needed more capacity to fill this big order which we still I 37:47 don't know what it is and they haven't shared it but the merging acquisition is complete. The good news is they're going 37:54 from they forecast to go from 30 to 60 new employees here in Hait. So there's 38:01 more to come when we get the information. In fact, we're going to highlight them um in our next month's 38:06 meeting. the hourly pay schedules, the hours they're open, all that good stuff. 38:11 And finally, local ECD News, the Joint Economic Development Board had our final 38:18 quarterly meeting in November. You may remember our challenging but fast start 38:24 last year. Well, we were able to complete all four quarterly meetings in 38:29 2025 and they all have been registered with the state. That's all I have for this evening 38:35 unless you have any questions for me. Any questions for Miss Moore? 38:41 Thank you. Thank you. Uh board of zoning appeals. 38:46 We have no 38:52 industrial board opioid settlement board. We're waiting 38:59 on the next meeting, sir. Shelter Advisory Board, 39:09 Library Board, 39:14 beer board. Oh, we did meet Minister Packet. The 39:22 application for last month was tabled and will come up again uh by the next 39:30 Monday. Any other committees 39:37 that I left out? Okay. Motion to approve all the Thank you, 39:44 sir. Motion to approve the reports reports bucket. Second. 39:50 We have to do a roll call on that. All in favor say I. Those opposed. 39:57 Uh, okay. the meeting calendar. Uh if you have changes to that, you'll 40:04 let the mayor's office know. Uh things need to be I know things have 40:09 been we're already basically here and going. So uh but there there will be a 40:16 planning zoning meeting tomorrow night. It's normally scheduled Tuesday, first 40:22 Tuesday of the month. There is no solid waste meeting tonight because this meeting and the next one 40:27 there's no time up for I've already notified this committee. Okay. 40:35 Okay. Uh 40:40 uh unfinished business. Next on the agenda, 40:48 uh the first one that's on the agenda is possible action regarding resolution 2535. This is a changing of the official 40:56 county road list 41:02 that uh we did that month ago. 41:08 I would like to make the motion to bring that up for reconsideration. Having voted on the prevailing side, I'll 41:14 second that. Voting on We got a motion, a second uh to bring that up for a motion to reconsider. 41:21 Um and that there'll be this will be a two-part process. The first that we're 41:27 going to vote on is the u which if you're voting yes, you're voting to for the opportunity to bring it back up 41:33 again. And then after we do that, then we we take back up the motion, the resolution 2535, and then we'll vote on 41:40 that. Is that clear to everyone? Any discussion? 41:47 Roll call vote. Ron Pucket, yes. Ricky Murray, yes. David Picker, yes. Matthew Barnhill, 41:53 yes. Paul Calakott, yes. Clay Chester, yes. Danny Clark, yes. Todd Collins, yes. 41:58 Wayne Thomasson, yes. Steve Janaka, yes. Jim Herren, yes. Dusty Jordan, yes. Ron Mayberry. 42:03 Yes. 13. Yes. One. 13. Yes. One. Sorry. That's required. Does anyone wish to change your vote? 42:11 13. Yes. One abs. Okay. All right. So, now uh motion resolution 2535 42:18 uh is is back up for discussion. Uh this is changing the county road list. It was 42:24 adding a uh small stretch of road. U it was this was what was discussed in 42:30 committee. And uh we will need can we use the 42:36 original two sponsors or this or do we need to have two people? 42:44 Okay, let's back up. So 42:50 it's Jim Heron and I was the original two sponsors and I cannot make that motion to well I mean it's the 43:00 And paranarian, you can correct me on this, but the the resolution 2535, it is on the floor now. And so a vote yes 43:08 would be to approve that resolution. A vote no would be to have that to be 43:15 voting against that resolution and that piece of road not be added to the county list. Is that correct? Or you could 43:21 amend it removing that that one row because there was was there 43:26 not multiple. Well, it the resolution 2535. No, that 43:31 it was just one. It was just one section. Yes, sir. You're then you were correct. I apologize. Okay. And and not not I just want to 43:37 make sure everybody understands is that that what what we did with 2535 is we were changing the road list. And so if 43:44 2535 is to fail now then it goes back to the original road list and that piece of 43:50 road is not on the road list. Does everybody want to make from the chair I want to make sure everybody understands what we're 43:57 so Yes sir. The what what's going on is that the 44:03 chairman is constrained by the chair. He's the only one in the room that can 44:09 explain this. But I hope there wouldn't be any objection if if he doesn't do any more than tell us why we are doing this 44:18 if if you don't mind. Oh, sure. Uh is that when this was originally brought up in November on our November meeting um 44:26 is that uh when we brought that up when it uh that I was one of the sponsors, I 44:33 was unaware that there was pending lawsuit on the piece of road that we were adding. And It's the and and so I 44:41 if I would have known that, I would never have sponsored that because if there's a pending lawsuit, there needs 44:47 to be no change by the county that could affect the outcome of that lawsuit. Now, whenever that lawsuit is finished and 44:55 done with and all that's clear, then yes, we can take it back up if we choose to. But it I and I again if I was one of 45:03 the ones that's in my district and I was sponsoring it and but and if I would have known there was lawsuit never would 45:08 have brought it up that was made known after we passed it in November and and 45:14 so that's where that's why we're having to do this and that's why that it's on that it's coming up tonight uh is 45:21 because I feel like that anything that the county does making a a road an official county road should not affect 45:27 any pending lawsuit. They need to when all that is cleared then we can do whatever the county feels like we need 45:33 to do. Yes sir. So I just want to make sure. 45:39 Yes sir. We are voting whether or not to pass that through that road through now. 45:46 Yeah. Now now that is correct. Your vote right now is whether or not to pass that and make that a county road. That is 45:54 correct. Sure. 46:10 Uh, any other discussion? Call vote. Ron Bucket, no. 46:16 Ricky Murray, no. Devin Picker, no. Matthew Barnhill, no. Paul Calott, 46:21 no. Blake Chester, no. Danny Clark, no. Todd Collins, no. Wayne Thompson, 46:26 no. Steve, no. Jim Herren, no. Dustin Jordan, no. Ron Mayberry, 46:32 no. 13, no one absent. See, one wish to change their vote. 46:38 No, one. All right. U next under unfinished business is um resolution 2534, 46:47 reszoning property located on Highway 100. Uh this is our uh second hearing. 46:54 And it's I was one of the sponsors on this. Dan Clark's the other one. Dan, if you'd like to speak to this, 47:02 I asked the planning committee. It's been a month to think about it. I 47:08 encourage you to vote to approve this zone change. 47:13 Yes, sir. This is uh this piece of property is in my district and I have had no uh no one object to it. So, I 47:21 would also encourage Any 47:30 other discussion? Roll call vote. Ron Pucket, yes. Ricky Murray, yes. De Picker, 47:35 yes. Matthew Barnhill, yes. Paul Calakott, yes. Clay Chester, yes. Danny Clark, yes. Todd Collins, 47:41 yes. Wayne Thompson, yes. Steve, yes. Jim Harren, yes. Dusty Jordan, yes. Ron Mayberry, 47:46 yes. 13, yes. One. Does anyone wish to change their vote? 47:52 13. Yes. One absent. Okay. Uh next on the unfinished business uh is 47:59 um possible action uh regarding a uh table uh motion to amend the land use 48:04 plan and the chair will entertain a motion uh to take that back up. 48:20 All in favor say I. I those opposed. Okay. Uh that amendment 48:26 is is back on the floor. Might want to do a roll. It takes two3 to get it back off the table. 48:32 Oh, I'm sorry. Let's do roll call vote. Thank you. Yes, sir. Ron Pucket, yes. Ricky Murray, 48:37 yes. Devin Picker, yes. Matthew Barnhill, yes. Paul Calakott, yes. Chester, yes. 48:42 Danny Clark, yes. Coll. Yes. Wayne Thompson. Yes. Steve Janak. Yes. Jim H. 48:48 Yes. Dusty Jordan. Yes. Ron Mayberry. Yes. 13. Yes. One. 48:53 Anyone wish to change their vote? We have our two3. So, yes, it is back on the floor. So, anyone like wish to speak 49:01 to the amendment that was proposed to the land use plan? 49:07 I'll just remind everybody you you all received copies uh of that and Casey 49:12 posted it on the website. um heard or nothing but but but good comments from 49:18 the public about it and I would encourage you to vote for the amendment. 49:29 Any discussion? We're going to do this all at one time, 49:35 not individual. Well, I I put it all in one amendment, every change, and I gave everybody a 49:41 copy of that. That's my preference, but we could 49:48 I'd like to consider it as a package if that's possible. We can do it one at a time. 49:57 Right now, they're a package. They're all package right now. 50:07 Any discussion? Roll call vote. Ron Pucket, 50:12 yes. Ricky Murray, yes. David Picker, yes. Matthew Barnhill, Paul Calott, 50:17 yes. Clay Chester, yes. Danny Clark, yes. Todd Collins, yes. Wayne Thompson, yes. Steve Jokins, 50:23 yes. Jim Herren, yes. Dusty Jordan, yes. Ron Mayberry, yes. 13. Yes. One. 50:29 Anyone wish to change their vote? Yes. One. 50:34 Okay. Mr. Uh there are some minor things that are still in the land use plan that we would 50:40 like to look at and potentially adjust um with this plan coming from the zoning 50:47 and planning. All the commissioners of course are not on zoning and planning. We just have three representatives and 50:53 this is uh a plan that you know the 14 of us are going to be signing off on and 50:58 eight have to get approval for. Um I would like to make a motion that uh we 51:05 this land use plan to the health and safety for some additional discussion and adjustments um of which all 51:12 commissioners are part of that health and safety plan and we would look to take it up uh begin taking it up next uh 51:20 month not this month obviously okay I'll make a motion for that 51:25 one second everybody understand the motion 51:32 any discussion the chairman of the public safety. He health and safety and public safety is 51:38 two different things. I I think Mr. Geonov has me been public safety. That's exactly. And but the chairman has 51:44 no problem with with this. 51:52 Roll call vote. Ron Pucket, yes. Ricky Mur, yes. Devin Picker, yes. Anthony Barnhill, 51:58 yes. Paul Calcott, yes. Clay Chester, yes. Danny Clark, yes. Todd Coll, 52:03 yes. Wayne Thomasson, yes. Steve Janakus, yes. Jim Harrington, yes. Dusty Jordan, yes. 52:09 Mayberry, yes. 13, yes. One absent. Uh, does anyone wish to change their 52:15 vote? 13 yes, one absent. Okay. Is there any unfinished business? 52:25 Okay. Moving into new business. Resolution 2536. 52:30 Uh this is uh recommendation designate speed limit on Dogwood Drive. Uh Mr. 52:37 Geonas and Dustin, your either one of you like to speak to this. I'll speak to it. This is uh the the street that I 52:45 live on. So uh I had a neighbor ask uh a speed limit sign. I didn't ask if it was 52:51 because of me, but uh they did ask for one. Road commission brought it uh our 52:57 commission brought it to the road commission and uh in front of me tonight. I' 53:06 discussion. One thing I would like to point out this resolution and the speed limit first 53:13 went to the uh highway commission and they voted to pass it and in the future I 53:20 think we want to make sure that's the way that it goes because in the past we have seen 53:26 uh speed limit signs speed limit changes or designated speed limit 53:33 causing problems in community when it doesn't go through proper channels you Sure. Make that recommendation. 53:39 Sure. Any other discussion? Ju just one and for their information 53:48 because I've been around a little while and have been through some of what Dusky talked about. 53:54 One of the things we've learned is right now the the area you live in is not 53:59 posted. That's correct. And and in Tennessee, my understanding of it, a non-posted road is 45 miles an 54:06 hour. 55 55 but but that's that's that's the reason 54:12 for doing this if it's not opposed is that so I I I would having built 54:18 several houses in that neighborhood I would encourage everybody to vote for this 25 54:24 discussion roll call vote Ron Pucket yes Ricky Murray yes Picker yes Barnhill 54:31 yes Paul Cotty Clark yes Collins Yes. Wayne Thompson. 54:36 Yes. Steve Dino. Yes. Jim Harren. Yes. Dusty Jordan. Yes. Ron Mayberry. Yes. 13. Yes. One absent. 54:43 Anyone wish to change their vote? Okay. Resolution 2537. 54:50 Uh this is regarding authorization uh for the Hickman County Mayor to apply for the community development block 54:56 grant for disaster recovery. Uh Devin Picker, Dusty Jordan are the sponsors. 55:01 Like to speak. I think it goes without saying to give the mayor the opportunity to apply for these funds and sort of it 55:08 goes back to the 21 floods. So we're five years removed, but that it's a proactive thing to continue to plan and 55:14 debris clean and all of that. So I certainly would encourage everyone to vote for that 1.9 mill. 55:23 Any other discussion? Roll call vote. Ron Pucket, 55:28 yes. Ricky Murray, yes. Debon Picker, yes. Matthew Barnhill. Yes. Paul Calott, 55:34 yes. Clay Chester, yes. Danny Clark, yes. Todd Collins, yes. Wayne Thomas, yes. Steve Janakus, 55:40 yes. Jim Herren, yes. Dusty Jordan, yes. Ron Mayberry, yes. 13 yes, one absent. Does 55:46 anyone wish to change their vote? 13. Yes. One. All right. Resolution 2601. 55:54 Uh, this is a request to request the state of Tennessee to place a sign on Highway 48 South. uh in memory of Tony 56:02 Brewer Jr. Uh Mr. Play Chester, Ricky Murray. U yes, Mr. Chairman. Uh Commissioner 56:09 Murray and I were contacted by Mr. Brewer's mother uh a little while ago wanting a a sign placed on the side of 56:16 the road. There's one similar out there where someone else was killed in a a car accident. 56:22 not naming a section of the road, not naming a bridge, just she wanted to go through the proper channels to have a 56:27 sign put up instead of just doing it on her own. And so it passed the highway commission and um I would encourage 56:35 everyone to support passing it here tonight. Okay, I concur. 56:40 Okay, any other discussion? Roll call vote. Ron Pucket, yes. 56:45 Ricky Murray, yes. Devin Per, yes. Matthew Barhill, yes. Paul Calakott, yes. Yes. Chester, yes. 56:51 Danny Clark, yes. Todd Collins, yes. Wayne Thompson, yes. Steve Janaka, yes. Jim Herren, 56:56 yes. Dusty Jordan, yes. Ron Mayberry, yes. 13. Yes. One absent. 57:02 Does anyone wish to change their vote? 13. Yes. One absent. 57:07 Okay. Uh, resolution 2602 authorization uh authorizing continuous four-year 57:14 appraisal cycle. This was in your packet. 57:22 Trust Jordan, Steve Geianus, either one, you all like to speak to 57:28 this. Yeah, we've discussed this. We we've heard from Mr. Jenkins and he explained 57:33 uh how this would work. This will definitely help in our ratio studies of which if you were part of the the budget 57:41 uh last year, you know, we had uh we had to uh do some things with with the the 57:46 the value of a penny um because of some of that ratio. So, this will will help 57:53 in that situation. We won't have to do the ratio. It'll be indexed. Uh Mr. Jenkins explained how they will group 57:59 some homes together and things of that nature um uh for adjustments at the 58:04 two-year cycle uh if need be. And with you know home prices and the volatility 58:12 that we have um you know this would would definitely help protect um and and 58:19 not get us in the situation that we were with the uh the budget last this this year that we're in actually. So Mr. 58:25 Jacob, did you want to say anything else about that or just anybody? 58:33 Any discussion? 58:40 Okay, roll call vote. Ron Pucket, yes. Ricky Murray, yes. David Picker, yes. Matthew Barnhill, 58:46 yes. Paul Kakott, yes. Chester, yes. Danny Clark, yes. Todd Cotlin, yes. Wayne Thomasson, yes. Steve Janaka, 58:53 yes. Kim Harris, yes. Dusty Jordan. Yes. Mayberry. Yes. 13. Yes. One absent. 58:59 Anyone wish to change their vote? 13. Yes. One absent. 59:04 Okay. Next on the agenda is resolution 263. This is reszoning of property located on 59:11 Highway 7 in Prim Springs, Tennessee. This is the first reading and so 59:16 there'll be no action that will be taken. Uh, and we've had the public 59:22 public hearing on that. There'll be action that will be taken next month. U 59:30 any discussion um on 2603. 59:36 All right. Is there any uh any new business? Any more new business chair missed? 59:46 Okay. Are there any announcements that need to be made? 59:52 One thing I meant is that There's a uh meant to mention is there's a budget schedule for this year. We did we did 59:58 approve it and talk about it in the budget committee and uh I do we need to approve it here or is that 1:00:05 I don't think it's it's there. You guys have those those dates and stuff. And I and I also 1:00:12 did ask Miss Crystal to make sure that she shared that with the school. And if 1:00:17 there's any nonprofits that are listening, there's a date that those 1:00:22 have to be in and it's on that budget um uh schedule. So, make sure that you get 1:00:27 them in so we don't have those strings coming in late because we kind of put 1:00:33 our foot down. We're not going to accept any lates. Okay. Any other 1:00:41 make a motion to We are journ. Thank you.